Nevada (1944)

Directed by Edward Killy
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Lions Gate)

Early "Bob" Mitchum effort as the replacement for Tim Holt in the Zane Grey series of B westerns from RKO. Chito is back playing guitars and chasing women as his sidekick, as well as old pro Emmett Lynn as Pancake. It's a decent story about the Nevada Comstock Lode, with bad guy Craig Reynolds buying up supposedly worthless homesteads, since only he knows it's actually silver and not gold in them thar hills. Mitchum, though, steals the film with charisma to burn.